Virginia quotes

Up the hill where stucco houses inVirginia creeper drownö And my childish wave of pity, seeing children carrying down Sheaves of drooping dandelions to the courts of Kentish Town.

-Betjeman, SirJohn
  New Bats in Old Belfries,'Parliament Hill Fields'.

The little cousin is dead, by foul subtraction, A green bough fromVirginia's aged tree.

-Ransom,John Crowe
  Chills and Fever,'Dead Boy'.

An old-fashioned Virginia fox hunt, gentlemen.

-Washington, BookerTaliaferro
  Comment on the skirmish at Princeton, 3 Jan. Attributed.

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